Chai Rong was the adopted son of Guo Wei, so he was not Taizu of the Later Zhou Dynasty, but Shizong of the Later Zhou Dynasty.
However, Chai Shihua's surname was Chai. In order to improve his own status, he directly promoted this ancestor...
Who dares to say that Chai Rong is not Zhou Taizu? That is a crime of disrespect. You don’t have to wait to arrive at Hami Guard, you can kill him now to worship the ancestor!
Chai Shihua said a bloody battle, that is a bloody battle, not a bloody battle!
In the team led by Chai Shihua, Chai Shihua's orders are God's will, imperial edict, and king's law!
Li Zicheng felt that this should be the case. If An Lushan had not managed his own troops during the Anshi Rebellion, he would have replaced Li Tang.
However, Li Tang was his previous dynasty, and An Lushan was solely to blame for the consequences he received!
Sun Chuanting heard that both groups of rebels had fled to Shazhou Guard. If he pursued them, he might continue to flee westward.
If we pursue the Yili area for a year and a half, what should we do if His Highness the Crown Prince orders all ministries to serve the king?
Besides, the army is fighting far away from the mainland, so it is difficult to supply the food and grass it needs, so it can only raise it on its own.
Considering these two factors, and the fact that all of Gansu has been recovered, we should be wary of Tumut cavalry coming down from time to time to rob us.
Sun Chuanting first observed the Suzhou Guard for a period of time to see how the rebels were doing, and then strengthened the defense here. Seeing that the opponent did not intend to make a comeback, he led his troops back.
Chai Shihua said that if he did not go to the Western Regions as soon as possible this year, he would have to wait until the end of spring next year, otherwise he would encounter a heavy snowstorm on the road and his troops would be wiped out.
The longest march route is from Shazhou Guard to Hami Guard, and then to Turpan from there.
If the climate in Turpan is suitable, you can settle there, otherwise you can continue to the west.
Chai Shihua heard from businessmen from the Western Regions that there was a large lake about four hundred miles west of Turpan, and it was fresh water.
As long as there is a water source, the army will not die of thirst and can use this place as a base to expand in the future.
Li Zicheng felt that Chai Shihua's plan was very good. If sufficient water sources could be found in the Western Regions, the army would be able to have enough food and clothing.
Because wherever there is a water source, there must be grazing people. By controlling these grazing people, you can provide a continuous supply of meat for the army.
If the lake is big enough, you can also fish in the lake, and you can also perform tooth festivals. It must be no problem to feed tens of thousands of them.
However, given that it was already autumn, and the risk of traveling thousands of miles away to a place he knew nothing about was too great, the danger was too great.
Li Zicheng's intention is to use the period from this year to next spring to collect as much food and grass as possible, and when the next spring arrives, the army will set off immediately.
There is an eye-catching Sun Dog thief in the pass, who may pounce on him and bite him at any time.
It feels uncomfortable to leave home, but in order to survive, I can only bite the bullet and head west...
What Yelu Dashi could do back then, they now even have guns and artillery, so they can naturally do it.
If you go to the Western Regions, you may not be able to create a world. As long as you have enough experience, establishing a country there is not a wishful thinking!
Both Li Zicheng and Chai Shihua felt that no matter how ruthless the natives in the Western Regions were, they would never be as ruthless as Sun Chuanting.
If I can't defeat the Sun Gou thief, how can I defeat the natives of the Western Regions?
If you can't beat them, just wipe your neck to avoid wasting food!
Unable to eliminate Li Ni and Chai Ni, Sun Chuanting always felt very awkward and depressed.
He received high military pay every month, but in exchange he could only expel two groups of rebels to Shazhou Guard.
Worried that the two groups of rebels would unite with the Tumuts again, Sun Chuanting could only write a letter to Prince Ming while leading his army to temporarily station in Gansu as a precaution.
By the time a certain prince received the letter, it was almost the New Year...
Even if these two rebels are not eliminated, it would be good if they can be expelled. In short, they cannot continue to do evil in the customs.
It doesn't matter if you are willing to go to the Western Regions, where you can stir up trouble and let the local indigenous people have a taste of the power of the Ming rebels!
The fact that courier brother Li and Chai Shihua ran away means that the rebellion that has plagued the northwest for many years has almost been suppressed.
Without these two main groups of rebels, the other petty thieves would not be able to make big waves in Shenzhen.
Once the pacification campaign in the northwest comes to an end, the only difficulty for Beiting will be the disaster in Henan.
Except for those who starved to death locally, those who followed the rebels and were beaten to death, those who received relief from various prefectures and counties, and those who traveled far away to Nanzhi and Shandong, there were basically not many scattered disaster victims left.
Both Shandong and South Zhili received hundreds of thousands of disasters, which may eventually reach millions.
However, the place where Henan Disaster Min settled in Shandong was along the canal, and the place where he settled in South Zhili was in the Lianghuai River Basin.
They are not poor places, and there is no shortage of water. As long as there is no shortage, most people will not starve to death.
The local government adopted a work-for-relief policy, which quickly pacified a large number of victims.
In fact, after Luo Rucai's group was wiped out, Li Zicheng's troops fled to the northwest, and Zhang Xianzhong and the Gezuo Fifth Battalion were trapped behind the Dabie Mountains.
Without these people who take the lead in causing trouble all year round, no matter how many disasters there are, there will be no trouble.
There are very few people in Henan who intend to rebel. At most, they have lieutenants like Li Yan and Niu Jinxing.
The latter became a dog-headed military advisor under a certain prince, while the former was sent by a certain prince to supervise relief work in various parts of Henan.
The Red Lady also acted together and was responsible for the female relatives in the disaster.
I was originally very angry about the order from above to mix sand into the relief grains, but after hearing the whole story, I could only acquiesce to the matter.
If there is sand in the grain, it is considered brown rice. Even if it is resold, the price cannot be paid.
Pan Min is starving to death, so naturally he won't care about this. The sand will sink to the bottom, so he just needs to pay attention when drinking porridge.
The purpose of adding sand and sending more inspectors is to minimize the bad behavior of reselling relief grains.
It is not to eliminate it, but to reduce it, because it is impossible for all local officials to be upright officials, so it is impossible to eliminate the reselling of grain.
We can only ensure that Disaster Min is not starved to death first, and then find a way out for him.
There is no need to analyze and investigate who came up with this evil idea. There is only one bad person in Ming Dynasty, and he is not very old...
The angry lady wanted to question the prince face to face, but after calming down, she could only sigh.
Perhaps facing this situation, no one can think of a better way.
In the whole of Henan, only the south and the north are still alive.
In the south, close to Huguang, the weather will not be too dry and it will rain from time to time.
To the north is the Yellow River. Although the Yellow River is about to dry up, it has not yet stopped flowing, which can provide water for millions of people.
Places like Ruzhou in the middle are almost no man's land with ten rooms and nine empty rooms. Even if you stay, you will starve to death.
This was after the prince ordered the seven vassal kings and hundreds of thousands of people to be relocated within the territory, otherwise the situation would have been even more tragic.
Lu Daqi, the governor of Henan, received a secret letter from the prince, saying that such a severe drought would continue for at least four to five years, and his heart suddenly went cold.
If natural disasters continue, Henan may not be able to survive even three years, let alone four or five years.
Three years later, I am afraid that the total population of Henan will not exceed five million.
Although Lu Daqi was anxious, he also understood the difficulties faced by the prince and the court.
The Donglu in the north have been knocking on the pass for many years, and the rogue bandits in the south have been suppressing them repeatedly.
The military requirements exceed 20 million taels every year, so how can we take care of disasters?
Lu Daqi could only do his best to appease the disaster-stricken people in the territory.
If you can stay here, it's good. If you can't, you can arrange for them to go to Shandong or Nanzhi, and try your best to save every disaster.
To a certain prince, Henan had become a huge sore.
Disasters are maggots on sores. If you leave them in, they can eat the rotten flesh. If you remove them, they can dig up the sores.
How to treat it depends on how many maggots are left...
If there are too many maggots, they will become a hidden danger, so they must be diverted to other places.
Among the five affected areas in the north, the situation in Beizhili, relying on Jifu, improved the fastest, but the area bordering Henan was still in worse condition.
Relying on the five major projects of canals, city building, mining, salt drying, and sea fishing, Shandong has basically got rid of the impact of drought.
Especially along the coastline around the peninsula, even ordinary people can often eat fish and various seafood.
This is mainly due to the fact that Yan Jizu, the governor of Shandong Province, got better after eating locusts when he was in the capital!
If you don't get enlightened, you will have to stay in the capital and eat locusts for the rest of your life...
City building, mining, salt drying, and sea fishing can all be used as relief projects. The sea salt produced on the shore can not only solve the livelihood of hundreds of thousands of young people, but also bring an income of millions of taels to the Yamen. .
With the rise of sea fishing and north-south maritime trade, the shipbuilding industry has become a new job-creating project.
Yan Jizu demanded that the whole territory must achieve the established goal of building 3,000 boats per year. Although 60% of them are small fishing boats, they are still boats, and they can also get rich returns for the fishing miners.
It doesn't matter if people can't afford fishing boats. The local government allows them to be rented. Not only can the rent be calculated on a daily basis, but the caught seafood can also be used directly to offset the rent.
As long as the weather is calm, you can see fishing boats dotted on the sea on the high ground near the shore.
Contrary to the maritime ban that had been implemented for many years, the prince and the court encouraged various places to build more ships. The more ships, the better.
More boats means more fishing boats. With more fishing boats, Yu Min can catch more fish and the people can eat seafood.
Yan Jizu’s plan is that within five years, the total number of fishing boats that can be dispatched along the coast of Shandong every day will reach tens of thousands.
Summer is hot and seafood cannot be stored. It can only be sold nearby and eaten as soon as possible, otherwise it will spoil and smell.
In autumn and winter, especially in winter, although the conditions for sea fishing are relatively harsh, the advantage is that they can be stored for a long time.
Especially when it was delivered to the capital as a tribute, for Yan Jizu, it was an errand that he couldn't even forget to eat.
After a certain prince enjoyed Shandong's seafood, and taking into account the actual local conditions, he ordered that all seafood that met the court's procurement standards could be provided in Shandong, and the court would purchase it at market prices.
The standards are that you cannot pour water on the seafood to freeze it, tie it with thick ropes, pass it off as the best, and you cannot be short of something. Just like some seafood sellers in later generations, then you are lacking in great virtue.
The price of purchasing in large quantities will not be too high, but it can still make money for the fishermen. The small ones can be kept for themselves, and the big ones can be purchased by the Yamen.
It takes at least two years to raise pigs and sheep before putting them into production. If it were fishing, it would take at most one month to transport it from Shandong to the capital, and the cost would be quite different.
The cost of raising livestock is feed, and the cost of fishing is boat building. Each seems to have its own merits.
However, as the population of the capital increases, pigs, cattle and sheep alone are far from being able to meet the people's demand for meat.
Seafood and river fresh food are the best supplements. In spring and summer, river fresh food is the main one, and in autumn and winter, seafood is the main one.
The addition of fresh food can also suppress the sales prices of livestock and poultry and reduce the situation of skyrocketing sales prices.
Under the premise that there is a large-scale surplus of seafood in the sea, a certain prince's goal is to make seafood affordable and accessible to every household in the capital.
On New Year's Day, the imperial court no longer just gave out money to reward officials at all levels. Some of them gave out bonuses, and others gave out seafood and sea salt according to their grades. Seafood was meat, and sea salt was a necessity, so they didn't have to spend money on it.
Although this practice has caused criticism from some people, it is still generally justified. It is better than giving spices to officials to supplement their monthly salary during the Chengzu period.
In the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, the Ming and Qing Dynasties rarely fought. Even on the front line in western Liaoning, the Qing army only continued to besiege Jinzhou and sent troops to defend Ningyuan. That was all.
In this regard, a certain prince knew very well that this was the quiet period before the war, quite in the eye of the typhoon...
Since there has been no sign of Donglu knocking off the pass for a long time, the capital is naturally full of joy and peace, with singing and dancing!
The people who had been holding back for a long time also got the opportunity to show off their skills. They couldn't wait for the New Year. They were afraid that their braids would interfere with them again, so they released fireworks on New Year's Day.
Judging from the scale of the fireworks released at night, the situation on New Year's Day is almost the same as that of the Chinese New Year.
A certain father received a letter saying that business in the south is very prosperous and various commodities are still in short supply.
Calculated by production volume, the factory could reach the end of the year just from a certain father's orders.
However, the five million taels of silver and five million stones of rice will not be delivered until around the Chinese New Year.
A certain father did not recognize New Year's Day, but only recognized New Year's Day. This was the delivery period between the Southern Court and the Northern Court...
Being able to ensure that this huge amount of money and food is delivered on time means that the stubborn people in Jiangnan have been basically dealt with by a certain father.
A few fish that slipped through the net were trampled down by Hong Chengchou's army, and now they are all enjoying mining in Shandong!
A certain prince didn't mind at all that his mine had an extra 100,000 miners. Instead, he thought the more the better.
If these scum hadn't evaded taxes, leaving the court unable to make ends meet and provide timely relief, how could so many poor people starve to death when the disaster hit the north?
As for compassion…
One side was starving to death and couldn't even eat the bark of the tree.
On the other side were those who were so full that they dared to rebel.
Which side do you think we should sympathize with?
Don't you like to smell bad?
Then let me work hard in the mine!
A certain prince hoped that his father would send him another 100,000 or even hundreds of thousands of free miners, so that the mining costs of his mines would be greatly reduced in the future.
For those hired miners, daily wages are paid according to the market price. They will be paid for one day's work without any arrears.
And these are free…
Mining is atonement!
Based on the daily output of hired miners, the atonement can be completed in 3,650 working days, which is ten years!
Fair and reasonable, no bullying!
As for those female relatives, the place to stay would be even better.
A certain prince's army is equivalent to a monster. It is necessary to ensure that the monster is obedient and maintains a certain combat effectiveness.
In addition to feeding a large amount of meat and grain, a large number of women also need to be fed...
